Newsfire has always been my default RSS reader since it came out. That was until NetNewsWire 3.0 was released. I gave it a shot and never went back. That is for different features that are still missing in Newsfire and one of them (that I really love) is the ability to choose the design of the story display. While there are quite a lot of default designs available, I wanted to have something a bit more personal and started digging in the ressources files to check how to modify the styles. And I found out that they are basic html files styled by CSS. I then decided to make my own. I started to mod an existing file, then created one and within 3 hours I was up to 7 new files!

Newsfire has always been my default RSS reader since it came out. That was until NetNewsWire 3.0 was released. I gave it a shot and never went back. That is for different features that are still missing in Newsfire and one of them (that I really love) is the ability to choose the design of the story display. While there are quite a lot of default designs available, I wanted to have something a bit more personal and started digging in the ressources files to check how to modify the styles. And I found out that they are basic html files styled by CSS. I then decided to make my own. I started to mod an existing file, then created one and within 3 hours I was up to 7 new files!
I thought that some of you are NNW users and would be interested in trying the styles I made, so here they are and free of use of course. A special thanks to Chris Clark for allowing me to use a bit of the code he made for his “mail” style. 7 styles are available for download below. To install them, just double click the files and follow the onscreen intructions. Enjoy ;)

xiap1nnwstyle:

This first style focuses on grids. I tried to make it sober, yet elegant and easy on the eyes. It comes in three colors variants (blue, green and orange).
Preview 1, preview 2, preview 3. Download.

xiap1variantnnwstyle:

This one looks a lot like the one above but it’s slighly in the general color scheme and in the links behavior. It comes in two colors (bright orange and green).
Preview 1, preview 2. Download

xiap2nnwstyle:

This one lis directly inspired buy the design of my “test your fonts” website. a Dark blue background with a touch of light green and blue.
Preview . Download

xiap2nnwstyle:

The last one is closed to one of my wordpress upcoming theme, Andromeda. It’s basically a notebook page on a soft blue background.
Preview . Download